The Invisible Man - LimpidSoft

CHAPTER XII. THE INVISIBLE MAN LOSES HIS
TEMPER
"Stop thief!" and he ran obliquely across the oblong towards
the yard gates, and vanished.
Simultaneously came a tumult from the parlour, and a
sound of windows being closed.
Hall, Henfrey, and the human contents of the tap
rushed out at once pell-mell into the street. They saw
someone whisk round the corner towards the road, and
Mr. Huxter executing a complicated leap in the air that
ended on his face and shoulder. Down the street people
were standing astonished or running towards them.
Mr. Huxter was stunned. Henfrey stopped to discover
this, but Hall and the two labourers from the Tap rushed
at once to the corner, shouting incoherent things, and saw
Mr. Marvel vanishing by the corner of the church wall.
They appear to have jumped to the impossible conclusion
that this was the Invisible Man suddenly become visible,
and set off at once along the lane in pursuit. But Hall had
hardly run a dozen yards before he gave a loud shout of
astonishment and went flying headlong sideways, clutching
one of the labourers and bringing him to the ground.
He had been charged just as one charges a man at football.
The second labourer came round in a circle, stared,
and conceiving that Hall had tumbled over of his own
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